in a story that you will only see on cbs 5, dr. kim looks at the symptoms and the unusual way that doctors are treating it. >> at the oakland medical center, doctors examined a young asian woman with a persistent cough. x-rays show a problem, and diagnostic tests reveal a surprise, an unusual bacteria infection, an organism often seen in patients with advanced aids. >> we did a biopsy of furlongs in the areas around her lungs, every one of them grew the same organism. in fact, everywhere that we poker with a needle, she started to leak this organism out for body. >> but she did not have hiv. the infectious disease specialist dr. roger baxter ... >> the more we treated her, the worst she did. >> he gave her every ton of antibiotic but nothing worked. >> it was like she was a medium for this organism, and was being eaten alive by it. she was clearly dying. >> dr. baxter called the national institutes of health in maryland for help, the scientists ask him to send the patient back to them and he did. >> what they found was amazing, in